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Try writting a nice clean, clear, and good law covering all of the points you mentioned.
You can't, it's that simple.
The law isn't like that because we all decided that 18 is the magical day that you suddenly know what sex is and can responsably handle it.
The law is like that because there HAS to be A law being clear, coherent and plainly dealing with the situation.
Sure you might think that 17 might be a better age or 16 or some of you even 9. But it isn't legally like that way and if you really have an issue with it you have to deal with it.
Nobody really has that huge of an issue on the moral standpoint of fucking someone thats 17 years and 364 days old, but you still broke a law that was written more to be clear and consice rather than being the absolute peak of morality. I am sure you could petition various changes with very little changes.
If you wanted to drop the legal age of consent for a young male and an older woman down to 16 or even 15 I am pretty sure the nation would just shrug. Doing it with the legal age of younger females would be a more difficult issue to pass, but you would still have to deal with it if you wanted to change it. I would suggest by dropping the legal age for males and than call it sexest the next year to get it dropped for females too. It just might work.